Quiet Weekend . . .

This weekend was nice and quiet. Trisha flew up with some friends from Florida on Friday for a quick weekend visit to enjoy the leaves. Of course the time was too short. We enjoyed a meal together on Friday evening at High View Super Club and then at my house on Saturday for a LATE!! lunch! My dad was curious as to what the menu would be . . . in case he had to bring his own lunch . . . . therefore, the menu was Mexican Enchillada's and rice . . . . ! As smart as he talks, I noticed he took seconds!! He claims to be a meat and potato guy only!

Gavino had a birthday party on Saturday at his friend Shane's house. The brave mother had 14 little boys under one roof for 2 1/2 hours!! Much braver than I would be!! Little 6 & 7 year old boys have allot of energy!!

Today is a nice lazy day at home. By the end of the day - the laundry should be all caught up - and we should all be ready for the upcoming week!

Jimmy's foot is coming along good. The range of motion has increased substantially in the last week. He is not to put any pressure on it until October 17 - so we're still a ways out. I'm soo grateful we have a big house and Jimmy's quarters are in the basement. Both his teams are playing (Brewer's and Packer's) and at this moment . . . they are both loosing. The quiet part of our weekend maybe coming to an end!!

Once again - Raquel was having fun doing her faviorite past time . . .. taking pictures. Cousin Emilliano and the boys have been enjoying the fall weather playing outside.

Mateo's fish!

Today Jason, Jimmy, and Mateo went fishing. Mateo pulled this lunker in with just a little bit of help!! Needless to say he couldn't wait for mom to get hom from work to show her what he caught!!

Here is a fun picutre Raquel took at the cabin over Labor Day of Mateo and cousin Jade!! After our photo shoot in Florida . . . . Raquel has formed a love for taking

pictures!!

Busy week . ... Thank you!!

My desk at work was sooo bad on Wednesday morning - I had to take a picture. When I don't reply to emails or answer calls . . . . . this is why!!

Just had to take a picture of the beautiful flowers I received for my birthday . ... thank you Trisha and Ian ... . and Miriam & family!!

Swiming Raquel ...

We have been busy this week watching Raquel swim. Tonight was very exciting as she improved her times and the team also won the meet against Medford.

Between the first week of school, swim meets, the election, mom's meetings, the school open house . .. .we have been thankful dad is still home to help out! Good thing there is only one more work day left!

Cast #4 . . . week 5

Baby Chet was helping feed Roxie at the Cabin!!

Well - Jimmy was very disappointed at his doctor appointment on Friday. He was hoping to leave the doctors in a walking boot - but instead received cast #4! He has now had beige, red, pink, and blue casts!! He is in big blue for the next two weeks. From there he should graduate to a walking boot and physical therapy. There is still no end in sight for when he can go back to work! As you can see - he's getting creative in finding activities he can do without walking . . .

Labor Day Weekend . . .

Beautiful Alma, Wisconsin . . .. this picture is a little hard to see the true beauty . . . but the City is buit into the bluffs and boarders the Mississippi.

Here are the results of the early morning fishing on the Mississipi. They always love catching catfish - as they give a good fight!

These are from last weekend at the cabin. We had beautiful weather and enjoyed playing in the Mississippi. The beach was shut down, so we had to find an alternate plan! We boated out to a sand bar (as did several others) and found a cool place to swim. The water was shallow and the bottom was pure sand. Because Jimmy and Jason are still on crutches, they observed from the boat. Ben thought they all should get wet and had fun splashing everyone. Grandpa took revenge and ended up doing a nose dive into the Mississippi fully clothed. Maria got the whole thing on video . . . but unfortunately I left my camera home that day!!

First day of School!!

YEAH - today is the first day of school. Raquel was up at 5:00 a.m. showering and getting ready for school! Vanessa and Gavino are so excited to finally get to unpack their backpacks at school with all their new supplies. Gavino has asked everyday for the last two weeks to wear his new school shoes . .. . . and has snuck and wore several pairs of his new socks already!!

The boys thought we needed to elaborate on their fish . . . . . .

Weekend at the Cabin

Friday, Jimmy and the kids went to his doctor appointment. He was able to shed his red cast and per the girls choice, he replaced it with a pink cast with white stripes! Sounds like he has two more weeks in a cast - then will graduate to a walking boot and physical therapy.

Friday night after work we headed to the cabin with Grandma and Grandpa. Jimmy and the kids got some fishing in. I took the kids down to the beach yesterday; dispite the cool weather, they had fun!

We packed up and headed home this morning and made it to Willard to the annual church Bazzare. Grandpa was with the kids and noticed the rummage sale was having a fill a bag for a dollar sale. Needless to say - he's still smiling as my kids each filled up a brown paper bag of treasurers.

Sunday night . . .

Along with all the fun Sunday night - we had a situation that was . . . not so fun.

Jimmy was untangling fishing line for Vanessa and decided to cut the line with his hunting knife. When doing that, he dropped the knife and it landed on his foot. After a trip to the emergency room, we learned that the knife cut the tendon that controls his big toe. They stitched up the gash in his foot on Sunday without reconnecting the damaged tendon. The earliest he could seet he specialist was on Tuesday. Tuesday he got to go to Marshfield two times, one to see the Specialist and teh second for an MRI. Surgery was scheduled for Thursday. His brother Humberto took him in to surgery on Thursday. He came home casted up to his knee and with a nerve block to control the pain. We get to remove that ourselves on Monday. He is unable to put any pressure on his foot now for two full weeks. His next doctor appointment is Tuesday . . . so hopefully all is well. Needless to say after day 2 he was completely sick of sitting around with his leg up. He's got a ways to go!

Happy B-Day Blake/Trisha's home!

Last weekend we had fun at Grandpa's. Trisha was home for the weekend and it was Cousin Blake's birthday on Sunday. The kids had fun fishing, swimming, and making a campfire at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Slip N Slide

Last week the kids decided to enjoy the heat playing on the slip N slide!! Good thing they did that last week - as the weather hasn't been as warm this week!